The Iconoclast
Tiny Minority of Extremists Continues to Multiply in Australia: Two ‘Security Risks’ A Day ‘Offloaded’ from Planes
As reported by Simon Benson for Sydney’s ‘Daily Telegraph’ on 28 February. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/two-australians-a-day-are-being-hauled-off-flights-for-security-risks/news-story/dd8d5a65ac7e07f31f6c1a4e28dfc0e1 “Two Australians A Day Are Being Hauled Off Flights For Security Risks.” “Australians” … More properly, “Australian-passport-holding Muslims”. […]
Miklós Radnóti: Learn… To Write Upon The Skies
Translated from the Hungarian & edited by Thomas Ország-Land (March 2016) 1 ENCHANTMENT We’re sitting in the brightness and scowling in the glare, a rosebush is leaping more>>>
The Garden
by David Solway (March 2016) On the clipped borders, a trellis of plums and cherries, straight paths embroidered in choreopsis and monarda and in the corner a strictly trimmed honeysuckle […]
I Would Call You Today
by Sutapa Chaudhuri (March 2016) But phone calls to your world need to pass through mindless red-tapism and age-old inertia; passports need to be fetched, more>>>
Trigger Warning
by Len Krisak (March 2016) How was I to know? There was no way to tell That when we came to Philomel Her tears would well up so.
The Tree at Frost’s Window Replies
by Evelyn Hooven (March 2016) “Not all your light tongues talking aloud Could be profound. . .” (from Robert Frost’s “Tree at My Window”) You don’t know me very […]
September Song
by P. David Hornik (March 2016) 1 Most women, when they leave their poolside chairs to go to the concession stand, wrap a towel around the lower part of […]
The Magical Universe
by Kanchan Bhattacharya (March 2016) There are places where things change, change forever- whispers happen and these are quiet places where eyes rest, and flicker when one visits nearby places, […]
Chattel Women—Nigeria, 2014
by A. Human Being (March 2016) April 14, 2014: Chibok village in Borno State, Northern Nigeria In another world to be sure . . . in a world made of […]
And Yet…
by Christopher Ward-Greene (March 2016)
Why I Don’t Read Newspapers
(written in 1971) by Richard Kostelanetz (March 2016) A prime blight of serious political discussion in this country is newspaper literacy, which is to say that too much talk and […]
Social Justice Warriors’ War Against the Enlightenment
by Lorna Salzman (March 2016) The Enlightenment of the 18th century, whose principles enabled the rise of secular democracy, egalitarianism and human rights, was made flesh in the French Revolution and […]
The Vote for the Greatest Portuguese and its Leading Candidates
A Fascist, a Communist and a Righteous Gentile by Norman Berdichevsky (March 2016) When Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Portugal’s authoritarian ruler since 1932 finally was unable to rule effectively and […]
“Stand Up for Bastards”: Natural Issue in the 1571 Act of Parliament, 13 Eliz., c. 1
by David P. Gontar (March 2016) “We are bastards all.” — Posthumus Leonatus “I am a bastard, too. I love bastards. I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in […]
Brittania Waives the Rules
by Michael Curtis (March 2016) In 1930 the British Daily Mirror issued a weather report, “Fog in the Channel, Continent is Isolated.” Britain is an island nation, with no borders […]
Nuclear War or Nuclear Peace? Israel’s Post-Iran Pact Options
by Louis René Beres (March 2016) For by Wise Counsel, Thou Shalt Make (Proverbs 24,6) The more things change, the more they remain the same. This is especially true in the […]
